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| Six children killed in Iraqi bomb explosion |
| 2003-05-15 |
| Edited for brevity. Six Iraqi children were killed and ten injured when an Iraqi bomb they were trying to dismantle exploded, the British Ministry of Defence said yesterday. The accident happened on Monday near Basra, which has been under British control since the end of the invasion of Iraq. "It seems the children were trying to get the copper out of an Iraqi munition when it exploded," a spokeswoman said. The United Nations said the accident showed how serious the problem of unexploded bombs was. I doubt this was an actual Iraqi "bomb"--probably a shell or a mine, but the reporter doesn't know any better. |
| Posted by:Dar |
| #1 Update:"Nine children were killed and seven were injured in Missan governorate on Monday when they were playing with unexploded ordnance," UN spokesman David Wimhurst told a press conference in Basra. Kathryn Irwin, a spokeswoman for the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), said the ordnance that exploded was an Iraqi rocket. |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-05-15 15:29:09 |